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Quick Tip: How to create Miva Bookmarks

Miva Tutorial Bookmarks

If you frequently find yourself visiting the same pages in your Miva admin, or have a difficult time remembering where to complete a certain task, we have a little trick to save you some time! You can bookmark pages within Miva making it simple to navigate back to popular pages with 1 click instead of […]

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Miva Tutorial: Adding a Page to Your Website

How to add a new page / landing

Whether you are adding a Contact Us page to a new store, providing return/cancellation policies to your customers, or perhaps offering tips and tricks about your products, using custom pages is the easiest and most efficient way to get the job done.  It can now be even easier with this illustrated, step-by-step guide to help […]

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Miva E-Commerce: Import Your Data and Images to a New Store

Miva Tutorial Import

 So you’ve created your new dev store and you’ve exported all your data from your old website; now it’s time to pull those exports back into Miva on your new store to get it up and running!  This video will cover how to go about importing the data you previously exported. A key feature […]

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Miva Store Settings/Setup for New Stores & Theme Install-Tutorial

Miva Store Setup

 In this video, you will be walked through the steps you need to secure your dev site, set up your new store, and download/install a ReadyTheme. Following this guide will give you the basics you need to hit the ground running with your new Miva store and allow you to jump in to the […]

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Miva: How to Display Selected Variant SKU on Master Product

Miva: Video Tutorial It’s important as a business owner to ensure you are staying on top of the latest shopping trends and website features. Being able to provide your customer with the best and most up to date shopping experience could mean the difference between a sale and an abandoned shopping basket. At Glendale Designs, […]

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E-Commerce Link Building Best Practices

link building

Links are powerful SEO juice for e-Commerce websites. There’s an art to creating a strong link architecture and leveraging internal and external links to get the most from your efforts. This mini guide covers some of the basics of link building that you can put to work today. Importance of Link Building in SEO Links […]

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Miva: Adding jQuery to Shadows – Elements Framework Javascript Resources

jQuery_Shadows

Miva Video Tutorial The Miva Merchant Elements framework and Shadows ReadyTheme ships with the “Cash” Javascript library instead of jQuery. This is fine as-is but, a lot of 3rd party plugins have been developed over the years and they require jQuery. So as soon as you want to do something from your preferred toolbox you’ll […]

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Miva: Product Exports vs Excel

Miva export leading zeros

Miva Video Tutorial: How to Import Data with Leading Zeros and Special Chars The dreaded product codes with leading zeros, custom fields for UPC codes, and avoiding data corruption with special characters from other languages like French and Spanish for example.  When importing these into Excel the zeros could be converted to a scientific notation or non […]

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